[NBLUG/talk] Firewall Generator

[Warren Raquel]

Well, I was thinking along the lines of running a server in a trusted 
enviroment to generate expected traffic. A ruleset is then made on the 
fly from the existing traffic. If anything I think it would be one cool 
project to work on.

Micxz wrote:

> Warren Raquel wrote:
>
>> Anyone know of any firewall generators out there? I thinking of a 
>> program
>> that will automagically create iptable firewall rules based on actual
>> traffic on your computer within a selected time frame. If it doesn't 
>> exist
>> it would be a great project to work on.
>>
>
> I'm not sure about on the fly script, maybe one running via init that 
> looked for abuse and made stricter rules depening on the output. I 
> think that's what you mean, I agree this would be cool. But on the 
> other hand if you have a good rule set going then there is no need to 
> create iptables on the fly. This makes a good talk;
>
> Some scripts I'd like to try:
>
> http://www.fwbuilder.org/
> http://firewall-jay.sourceforge.net/
> http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/
>


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